In the end, Red Alert 3 perhaps isn’t all it could have been. A more expansive tech tree for basic ground and air units would have been a slightly better choice than giving players dozens of super weapons to choose from, fun as it is to point a screen-sized crosshair at your enemy’s base.
Red Alert 3 ticks all the right boxes – it has co-op, it has armoured bears, a funny plot and some good, basic strategy gameplay – but overall it fails to really pull together to be something we haven’t already seen before and that’s a shame.